The worst of the worst. Cent link was stopping my DSL internet service..I basically had to change over to fiber optic. They assured me that they would not shut-off my DSL internet service until they had the fiber internet installed and running correctly. But the idiots turned-off my DSL before the fiber was installed, and I was without internet for 4 days, and suffered a loss in income (since I work form home) Every communication with them was nearly useless, they don't even call you back when they put you on hold and drop the call. The overseas call center people are just reading off of an information sheet and don't really know what they are talking about. The tech who installed the fiber was contracted-out by cent link and gets paid by the job, not by his time. So he was in a rush to finish my job and move on the the next. And they almost installed the fiber assigned to the wrong account (my wife's!) instead of my account. At every turn they made mistakes...They are surely the worst company I have ever dealt with and I would abandon them in a second, but in my area of Seattle they are the only fiber providers. If I could give them a negative number as a rating I would. Addendum: They finally got my fiver service up and running. Now, my voice mail does not work and I have spent hours on the phone with the nearly useless Tech support at Century link to try to get my voice mial to work. In my every interaction with Century link they continually surprise me by being even worse than the previous interaction. THE WORST. read more

Absolutely the worst customer service. Terrible connection. Advertised 40 mbps. Getting less than 10% of that. My bill is $140 for just phone that doesn't always work and terrible connection. Switching over from them to another provider. DO NOT USE CENTURYSCAM read more

Centurylink is the worst..Bills are higher each month and representatives don't even know what many of the fees are. Terrible customer service if you can even reach a real person read more

Worst internet provider ever. Multi-day outages every couple of months. Customer service with no clue about what's going on. Totally inaccurate estimates about service restore time. They should be sued for using the word "reliable" in their messaging read more

I had centurylink for about a year and I was very happy with it. This past week we lost electricity and the modem would not reboot. I unplugged it for a minute and it would eventually go to a blue blinking light. I called that morning and did the reboot again while on the phone. After all that I was told there was an outage in my area even though when I checked on the web site no outages were reported. I was told that it should be on by 11 pm. The next morning t tried to reboot again and still got the blue blinking light. I was not able to call until after 6 pm. Their 24/7 call line is not 24/7 line and referred to a chat line. I went through the whole thing again and still a blue blinking light. I asked for a technician to come out on Saturday. This is what I was told; "Hi ! Thanks for patiently waiting. GREAT NEWS!!! I was able to schedule you an appointment for Saturday To be honest, when I first filed a ticket, the date on Saturday was not available. But since I'm really sincere in helping you here and make up to you, I really did my best to schedule you for Saturday. October 14th, 2023 anytime between 8am-5pm." This didn't seem right. I called today to double check and found out no help ticket was put in. I spoke to FIVE different agents and all of them wanted me to reboot the modem. I got so frustrated I canceled their service. The only reason they got one star is because no stars wasn't an option. read more

I have now lost 2 days of work because I have no internet. Also, no communication. Customer service is a joke. Hopefully this review will help someone else avoid using them. I truly don't know how they are still in business. read more

Worst service provider ever. No communication, no idea if we'll get internet. Do not recommend read more

century link is the devil. what a greedy messed up way to treat your customers. I've called to cancel three times, twice they said it was canceled, but didn't and kept charging me. the third time they said whoops, and that they would take the balance off my account. guess what happened then, they sent me to collections. I'm so done. if they had negative stars on here I'd give them that. read more

Worst ISP I have used. Didn't offer service at my address then became upset because I wanted to make the mandatory survey as short as possible. read more

Look, I try very hard to avoid Comcast. They are evil. But one thing I will say, is their customer service is a thousand times better than CenturyLink. I placed an order for internet service at my new residence and did so live with an agent. I got a confirmation email of my order with absolutely no details of what the plan is. I guess I was supposed to save the transcript of my conversation with the agent as text file instead?? They set me up for a tech installation and setup for a few days later. Oh by the way, their appointment windows are "sometime between 8am and 6pm" so good luck. Also the confirmation email said I would get a reminder the night before - never got one. The day of, I reach out in the morning because their appointment estimate tool is super buggy and said my technician was scheduled for an hour earlier than the current time. I guess they mastered time travel and not basic web functionality. Anyway, they said I'd get a call when they are on their way. I needed to plan around a couple of thing so I reached out a couple of hours later. They said the tech was dispatched for my order, so I left to go to my new address. Instead, I waited there for 6 hours (until the end of their appointment window). No one came. I contact them again, got transferred 4 times and then was informed that they had some issue at their facility so they couldn't do my setup. No one decided to tell me??? Not an email, text, or call. This company is terrible and if ISPs weren't a corrupt oligopoly, they'd be well out of business by now. Save yourselves. End rant. read more

Here is a company with a great, stabile product. And that said, they have a communications system internally that positively fails. Specifically if, as I did, you create a repair ticket on the phone, then attempt online alteration, look out. Worse still, if you specify a tech use an alternative contact number (my cell was out, so I gave my partner's), they'll call the one you told them not to ... more than one time. Worst, even if you say to just knock, since you are there, with COVID mask, all day _ they won't knock. It's been 3 weeks, and my phone is still not fixed. After 3 decades as a customer, I'm sadly thinking of alternatives to my precious landline. Century Link, you are driving me away! read more

IF THERE WAS A 0 STAR I WOULD CHOOSE THAT. UNRESPONSIVE, UNHELPFUL, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!! My wifi broke down and I immediately called customer support for an appointment that was 2 WHOLE WEEKS AWAY. Even after those 2 weeks, my appointment got postponed days after days. Every one of those days I had to call them at least 10 times daily to check in on where the technician is and all they had to say was that they had no control over whether the technician could come today or not. DID I MENTION THE BROAD ASF TIME SPAN THAT THEY GIVE YOU FROM 8AM - 5PM?! I'VE BEEN BASICALLY CAMPING MY DOOR WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COME DURING THAT ENTIRE 9 HOURS AND NO ONE EVER SHOWS UP! WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE TO EVER EXIST! If you're looking for a provider no matter what you do, AVOID CENTURY LINK AT ALL COST CAUSE HOW? How is the technician left unmanaged like that for almost 3 weeks now. Please consider unsubscribing from this provider if you're currently in it. No one knows what they're doing in this company, trust me :) read more

STILL on the phone for 35 minutes, yet to another department and waiting to resolve a simple reactivation of a landline. The service department reassured me that my elderly mother's phone would be reactivated TODAY 8 am - 5 pm ... It NEVER happened and now I'm troubleshooting. read more

Laurin D. STINKs of being paid to post her review. What a joke. We just got our service in June 2020 and the connection drops constantly, the speed doesn't go over 80mbps NOT 80MBps which would be closer to the advertised rates. They deserve a class action lawsuit to be run against them and their false advertising. read more

If you are not a current CenturyLink customer, DON'T BE ONE! Every marketing and customer service personnel cares only about their own business and tries to instigate you doing business with them by giving misleading and ambiguous promises. Once you have signed a contract with them they'll never care about anything but money. The Internet service is just so so, but customer service is terrible. When you have problems they'll pretend not able to understand what your problem is and redirect you to someone else, and your problems are very unlikely to be actually resolved. At the end of the first year's contract, our discount for the first year is about to end and the monthly bill will be increased by $15. We were considering switching to another service provider which costs only $60 for 100Mbps Internet. But we were told that if we keep the Internet and add DIRECTV in addition to it, we'll receive the discount price for another year. They tried to let us sign a contract for several years. We were worrying about the availability of the TV service if we move to another place, but they promised that the DIRECTV service coverage is national wide. Turns out that the service is NOT available right in our very first apartment where we wanted to install! We felt to be deceived, but the story is not end yet. We were clearly told that we can still receive the discount price even without the DIRECTV service (BTW the customer rep who told us this was a Korean and was extremely impolite and discriminatory just because we couldn't speak English very well) , but the bill said differently - we were charged a full price of $50! I contacted the online chat customer service, and after stating my situation he asked me "So, what's your question?" I can hardly believe if he's not pretending not being able to understand! He was very impatient and kept saying something like "You haven't spoken for a while - if you don't say anything I'll disconnect blablabla" while I was typing. Then, I dialed their customer service number, and waited more than 40 minutes, and was told that this is totally unchangeable - we have to accept this full price even if we had better choices if we knew that there wouldn't be any discount at the first place. Fine, you can keep charging me $15 more for one year, but after the contract has terminated, I'll never allow another CenturyLink bill be present in my home in my life! CenturyLink (as well as their partners like DIRECTV) are full of fraud and venality. read more

The worst internet service I have ever had, on top of the worst customer service experience I have ever had. First off, when ordering service I was told that a service tech needed to come out for an installation. So we set an appointment, no show, no call. So we called to see what happened and were told we don't have an order for you or that address, we'll make an order and set an installation date. Again, no show, no call, so we call in to see what happened. Apparently we do not actually need installation, they will mail a modem out to us. Not one but two modems arrive a few days later, strange but we plug one in and it's working, albeit terribly. Then the bill comes, we have been billed for two installations, phone service that we never ordered (Two lines) and two internet accounts. So we call to get it straightened out and are told over the phone that a new corrected bill is on the way. That bill arrives and is for over 500 dollars, they simply gave us a 25 dollar account credit and opened more lines of service. It goes on like this until I get the FCC involved and after two months of mediation through the FCC, they fixed the bill finally. However, ever since we involved the FCC our service speed has dropped off the map, completely unusable. Strange timing for network congestion to be occurring 24/7 now. Of course when you check your connection with them they say all is well, it must be your devices. I've included a photo of my speed test history so you can judge for yourself. read more

CenturyLink - Seattle - Mobile Phones Near Me

By far, the poorest service provider I do business with. Their phone service is pathetic and their internet even worse. The only thing more pitiful than those two services is their customer service, which will run you in a circle for days and never accomplish anything. For weeks my business lines kept failing and phone not working. Somehow in the process of fixing that my internet has been disconnected for three days. Imagine a restaurant these days that can't take online orders. They have cost us thousands already and more everyday. All I get from customer support are lies and more lies. I will switch to Comcast. read more

Century Link is an absolute terrifying nightmare! Worst experience in my life! I would switch right now, if I had the option! It was supposed to work in no time. The contractor who came to set things up, shouldn't have taken more than 30 minutes to do that. Instead it took him 4.5 hours and no internet... After raising hell on the phone for 1.5 days (I'm not kidding here), a second contractor came. Guess what?! It took him exactly 2 minutes to see he couldn't fix the problem! After another half day on the phone (I'm also not kidding here) they finally sent another maintenance guy. Turns out there was no line connecting our home! So, apparently Century Link offers a service they can't even deliver... What a joke is this company! After pressuring them enough, they finally came through and added the line. This process would have taken an additional 2-4 weeks, if it wasn't for me spending 2 full days on the phone... As soon as an alternative comes available, like Wave Broadband, I will switch! My advice: think twice before going with Century Link and really look for alternatives! read more

Incredibly disappointed with CenturyLink. We had our router crash on Friday. I reached out to customer service through chat and was ping ponged around to over 4 customer service reps who didn't have any interest in helping me. Just canned delayed messages for an amount of time and then transferred to someone else. After over an hour I gave up and called their number. The phone number went much easier and they scheduled someone to come out the following Tuesday and asked me to be ready for the technician to arrive between 8am and 5pm. Tuesday comes around. We had a technician parked in front of our street for about an hour and then he/she took off. Since it was 4:30 I called the customer service number to find out that my appointment had been moved from Tuesday the 13th to the 21st of the month. I know to those agents we are just a call. But we live on a small island in the Puget Sound. How's my wife supposed to work (Office closed due to Covid) and how's my son supposed to keep up with his schooling. CenturyLink could care less. read more

Worst. Customer service. In history. 2hr 15 mins on hold, extremely long wait times. TERRIBLE. Internet drops many times daily.

Worst customer service ever ! While the internet service they provided was adequate for my home needs. The customer service when there was an issue is just unacceptable. From day one of technicians not finishing up the job . Such as leaving the box on the side of the house with the phone lines wide open. Also leaving all the phone wires on the utility pole just dangle at about 6' off the ground. It took many hours and multiple phone calls numerous texting and a month later they finally bundled up the wires and put them out of reach from people. Most recent 12/21/2023. My internet goes out , I chat with someone on line. Set up an appointment 4 days later. All acceptable. And naturally I have to take a day off work. At 8am I get a text saying technician is on their way. 1:58pm I get a text say they are sending a different technician. Not one technician ever showed up or got a hold of me . I messaged/chat with Centurylink after 5pm. They give me a line of BS. The following morning. No email no text message saying or acknowledging any issues. After the first issue on the initial situation I told the representative. If I have any issues with Centurylink. I'm dropping them. And today was the day. Centurylink feels they are too big to fail. They do not care about their customers. Do not use Centurylink. No matter how great of a deal they offer you. read more

Did you ever want to bundle your Centurylink Internet and Phone to Direct TV?? I'm existing customer and when I called Centurylink, Claire told me to phone DirectTV and when I did DirectTV REGGIE told me to phone Centurylink. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, DO NOT THINK SO. read more

Century Link, the best description is internet from hell. In the last 3 months my internet has completely failed 3 times! The first time, after very long holds, the repair person told me I needed a new modem. I needed to find one used as it is not possible to go to a CL store and buy one. I got one and you may have guessed it, it did not work. I called again and they said it was not the modem, but the line. The next day a technician was sent out. Finally, it worked. One week ago my internet failed once again. They said a technician would need to be sent out and the window you must wait, even if the repair is outside the house, is the entire day. In other words, the technician will get there sometime that day. One hell of a big window. Yesterday, I was on hold two times for over an hour. I had to hang up due to other things I do with my life besides being on hold for Century Link. They suggest you use their chat feature, which never functions. You can also easily do the diagnosis of your modem lights and that has never been the problem. Then I used my hotspot from my phone to go online and do tests from there and I got this message repeated several times throughout the day: Sorry! We are having technical difficulty submitting your request. The problem isn't specific to you. It's all on our side. "If this is the first time you're seeing this message, then it may have been a momentary issue. You should try submitting your request again. If you've already tried this, then you can either try again in 30 minutes or chat with an agent." Ah, but not to worry! CL has other options I contacted Facebook and Twitter CL and the upshot was I needed to call Century Link again. That was ever so helpful!!! Sunday morning and Wow! I thought I was about to actually get through and after several rings the phone was hung up by Century Link! Finally, I got through to repair. Did the diagnostics with the tech and of course, a tech needs to be sent and would not get here until Wednesday. I told the tech I would not be here but all necessary, including power and modems, would be outside and I will NOT be present. We will see. My suggestion CENTURY LINK IS AWFUL AND DO NOT SIGN UP with them read more

spent two hours trying to cancel my Centurylink account, they kept trying to get me to add more services when i kept telling them i was moving out of state. Their customer service dept sucks. read more

I would give 0 stars if I was able to. I have been going thru hell and back with customer service since I ordered my mom a landline we had problems with Xfinity for over a year with her internet and landline with the bill and service hoping to get a little better service it was great when you talk to sales, but it goes down hill after trying to get connected I was told it would be a month before they could connect her landline and would need to be home from 8 to 5 quite a big window but ok waited all day until 430pm and received a recording saying didn't have access so need to make another appointment! Long story short talked to5 people was disconnected twice and put to someone else the other 3 times finally spoke to a Nancy and she seemed like she knew what to do but that was a joke told me she would get ahold the next day between 10 and 1100 am to let me know what they could do. In the meantime I was getting emails that they had me connected and start profile also received a bill for the service that was never connected! Never heard from Nancy! Terrible experience, oh yeah received a text saying they will come 2 weeks later to connect never called to see if that date would work! That text came 2 days after the other fiasco! read more

Their payment system somehow triggered fraudulent activity on my card, so it was declined, and rather than sending me an email so it could be resolved quickly, they turned off my internet. I called to turn it back on, and after 30 minutes arguing with a robot, the person on the line told me you can only submit payment obtiendront over the internet. So in order to fix my internet, I need internet service. read more

DO NOT BUY CENTURYLINK INTERNET Bought the router and a 50 bucks a month connection for 150 total. Took 4 weeks for the router to show up so I got charged for a month before being able to use it. Tried to get it activated when it showed up, I was told the jack wasn't working so they could send someone out for $85 bucks + more if they need to fix something and that it would take over a week to get someone out.... in that time I would of had to pay for another months of internet. In all to be able to just use the internet it would of cost me $300+ and that's before I could even tell you if it was good quality. When I was told the service charges to get someone to come out and how long it would be I told them no and promptly canceled. Do yourself a favor and don't buy CenturyLink, it's not worth the headache and expense. read more

There is no way to talk to a person and I won't do the chat because it got my cards flagged with fraud alerts.

Absolute worst service I've ever experienced. Our internet + phone have been down for weeks. They refuse to repair despite continuing to charge for it. It was 4 days before the first technical even looked at it, who immediate said a MULTI-person crew was needed and rescheduled for next Tuesday. Tuesday no one comes. Wednesday a SINGLE tech comes, looks at it, and says it's too big of a job for one person. He then closes the ticket, despite not fixing the issue. When I call to follow up on the repair, they say Repair can't handle this, you need to create a new ticket with Customer Care and wait another 5 days. They've been sending us round and round, while continuing to charge for phone/internet which don't work. read more

Horrible customer service and inconsistent internet speeds. I called and ordered a new modem and upgraded internet speeds, scheduled an appointment for a tech to set it up. I took half a day off of work to wait for service, but they never showed. I called, and apparently the order was never placed. I HAD AN ORDER NUMBER!!!! The new customer service guy said it would cost me $100 for a tech to come out, or $50 for them to ship a new modem to me ($50 shipping fee?!?!?). This new CS guy completely contradicted the previous guy, and had zero interest in helping me resolve the problem. When I said I was frustrated that half my day was wasted and that I was getting a different story from this guy, he transferred me to the account cancellation team... read more

Modem would not provide internet after setting it up and showing connection to phone and computer. I was on the phone getting transferred (including to one rep who sounded like they were just waking up and continued to have background noise) and put on hold for over an hour, then hung up on because the automation decided "call centers are closed, good bye." read more

Centurylink deactivated our account when our house was switching who would be the name on the billing account. Their tech never showed up, they say we have a free month but refuse to answer our attempts to contact and will not reactive our account. Their acts have crippled two of us from our remote work jobs and another with his ability to perform a final exam for his nursing course. Way to ruin lives with poor services. read more

CenturyLink is a joke. I can't pay my bill til the day it is due. There are times where I'd like to be able to pay half my bill before the due date so that when the rest of the bill is due I can pay the other half of my bill to keep me current. And we loose service often getting anywhere between 0-30mbps can't even upgrade for better service due to the area I live in. Makes no sense!!! read more

The people you speak to at Century Link are all very nice BUT not at all helpful. Their customer service s abysmal. I just received another bill even though my service was NEVER connected, I returned the equipment and was told my supposed service was disconnected. read more

I can't believe how bad the CenturyLink support is. Much worse than Comcast.

I would never recommend this provider to anyone. Our monthly payment yesterday morning 8 am didn't go through. We paid with a different card right away but the service wasn't restored. Since then, for over 33 hours now every time we call they say it's going to be restored in the next 4-5 hours. There go two days of work and countless minutes of the same phone conversations with their support staff. read more

Upgraded speed but didn't realize that they had opened a new account. So for two months was billed for two accounts plus some other random charges. Hour and a half on the phone finally got someone who could see both accounts and she assured me cancelling one would not shut our service. Next day no internet - hour and a half on the phone to learn yes they shut off our service even though we still had an active account. Guess what - a technician needs to come out to reconnect and the earliest is a week even though it was their fault. Called Xfinity and had internet that evening. Centurylink never again! read more

I am a long existing customer of Century Link. On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, Century Link upgraded my system with Fiber Optic. The gentleman who installed this upgrade in my home was Modou. He did an excellent job; was timely, courteous and very helpful in all aspects. A BIG THANK YOU TO MODOU!! read more

100% NOT recommend them. Just list most people are saying such a hassle to cancel. I called in followed all the steps, even talked to a rep who assured my that my account was canceled. Well I just got a bill because they lied to me about closing my account. Now I have to call in again and try to close my account for the second time. Hopefully they'll close it this time. Because of all this hassle I will never use their service again. read more

I would never recommend CenturyLink to a friend or anyone!! Trying to cancel and disconnect an account is extremely frustrating. You talk to multiple customer service representatives who all tell you different, inaccurate information. Im very disappointed in the customer service of this provider. I was a customer for over 7+ years and feel disappointed with service now trying to leave. I would not use them and use any other provider if you have that option. read more